If you need to stop in Waitati today, try to keep the noise down. After all, Saturday was a big day.
More than 100 people turned out, many in costumes, to witness a major milestone - the opening of the town's new public toilet, dubbed "the Turdis", by Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull.
The Waitati Militia was on hand, of course, marching and drumming their way on to Harvey St as the organiser of the festivities, Mandy Mayhem-Bullock, danced with a giant pair of scissors.
Waikouaiti Coast Community Board chairman Alisdair Morrison gave a speech, thanking the council for finding the funds and congratulating Mr Cull for reaching "the pinnacle of his career ... the opening of a dunny in Waitati".
And, no sooner had a woman in the crowd finished muttering that the new building was "ugly", a mural of a giant morepork on the side of the structure was unveiled.
"Oh, it's much better now," the woman decided, smiling.
The mural was the work of Waitati artist Angela Lyon, who was invited on to the stage to tell the large crowd she only agreed to paint it "if there was no public scrutiny".
It was, he said, "the crowning event of my mayoralty ... as it involves a throne", as the crowd tittered.
The years-long delay building the facility had been a case of "bureaucratic constipation", he added, as the crowd chuckled.
But the community was clearly "busting" to get the "wee place" open, he said, grinning.
The crowd groaned.
He had won the right in a raffle - after the first two winners shrieked with laughter and refused to take part - and was handed a roll of Donald Trump toilet paper before disappearing inside to do his duty.
As he went to work inside, poems were recited and the militia's cannon blasted a single shot.
Then, at the sound of a flush, the dancing in the street began.
